Hitler's 1,000 Ton German War Machine (Most Insane Mega Tank Ever Invented)

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During World War 2 Germany went big with some of their weapons, and we mean really BIG! Check out today's epic new video that reveals the German 1000 Ton killing machine, the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte, the most insane tank ever invented.
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[@a_lifelesslie]

👍

[@henlooo7587]

Why no metric units? Usually you include it ....

[@ProScope_]

@@henlooo7587 exactly

[@stanleysallee6573]

But the problem is rescuers that they did not have at the beginning.

[@stanleysallee6573]

And the man power to.

[@Kubrzesz]

As much as that concept did not worked out, thankfully, like many other crazy machines invented, it sure served as a great foundation for the technology of Warhammer 40,000

[@federicoleoni8342]

But in warhammer 40k the heaviest tank (the benablade) only weights around 300 tons

[@grandcanyon-fu9zt]

If they can develop nuclear cubes ,they can certainly build this tank.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

Even in the 40s, even in crazy land Germany, I can't believe anyone thought this was a good idea! Its a giant slow moving target.

[@mikerhem1273]

Lol why would any tank designer think its a good idea for a tank to have living quarters and a lab. Lol clearly the lead tank designer was working as a spy sabotaging within

[@bierymolina4379]

@@mikerhem1273 there is one imposter among us

[@kiwigaming09]

Well it would have a great scare factor because seeing it in a battle as a group troop would be terrifying

[@tannerrichey8898]

Wouldnt it be the same thing as an aircraft carrier? It also had plans of AA guns & smaller anti-personel/ light armor weapons at various points throughout exterior. Not saying its not a bad idea just in comparison Aircraft carriers are also giant slow moving targets. (Hard to hit due to being in the ocean. & quite a bit faster to the tank in question.)

[@twinchunkan6846]

Not to mention it will be an invitation for the enemy fighter jets

[@xcaliber7779]

Imagine being a crew of the Ratte and being hit multiple times by a barrage of aerial bombs. Shell shock would be an understatement.

[@Tracy-xe9zu]

Like being in a metal garbage can being pummeled with baseball bats

[@johngammon6450]

Shell Concusssion

[@TylerTMG]

@@Tracy-xe9zu why does that sound like it happened to you

[@alzapua.m]

I'm not sure that shell shock means what you think it means

[@shadowthehedgehog4737]

I would be amazed if the tank was actually created and could move at a whopping 25mph. That's insanely fast for something of its size.

[@steeljawX]

That's the projected speed of it being on a paved road. . . . . of impossible durability that can withstand the weight of the thing. Off road. . . that thing probably would have trundled along at around 8mph or so. And by off road, I mean trailblazing a path through a forest kind of off road. But on the otherhand, it could have probably carved out the future grounds of the Autobahn all on it's own if it had existed. Just send it one direction and have a crew pave and paint the aftermath. Boom, 16 lanes across. All it costed was the rest of the steel intended for other tanks and more fuel than the Nazis ever had.

[@Austrianpainter637]

We would all be German then

[@shadowthehedgehog4737]

@@Austrianpainter637 We could only hope.

[@catking.d1854]

How to survive the tank in 1 step: Just drive around it. The maus was slow, this tank would be even slower.

[@brianrigsby7900]

I’d love to see a full scale model in a museum. I bet it’d look amazing up close!

[@BasicallyRANDOMYT]

Ikr, same. Just imagining the sheer magnitude

[@konradschnell6136]

Museum doesn't have space bro. Weren't you watching the video. 🤣😂

[@umm-]

The tank would be the museum. That thing is a moving monster

[@brianrigsby7900]

Ok. Outside of a museum then 😉

[@VD_-nx6yz]

It’d be insane

[@DreadEnder]

What was not mentioned in this video is how despite the ratte designed to weigh 1,000 tons, they did construct the turret which weighed 600 tons alone and it was only supposed to be around 1/3 of the total weight

[@thalastianjorus]

To wit these guns DID make for great fortifications on the Atlantic Wall.

[@DreadEnder]

@@thalastianjorus ?

[@a.r.t4954]

@Oscar Swinburn I think it’s a flat earther

[@thalastianjorus]

@@a.r.t4954 do... you people seriously doubt that the Atlantic Wall was real? LOL Wow.... Instead of spending 5 seconds on Google to discover that no one is talking about an architectural, solid wall... You'd prefer showing the world a vast deal of ignorance. Okay.

[@_.Glennicus._]

@@a.r.t4954 the atlantic wall was very real It was the german defense line from nortern norway to southern france Built by the Germans

[@MorganProductionsYT]

The P1000 Ratte Tank was like a straight out of a final boss from video games

[@dla749]

It makes sense that if the panzer 1000’s precursor was called a mouse, then this one would be called a rat. They are both rodents, with the rat (or ratte in German) being bigger than a mouse/maus.

[@erwinsmith61]

Land cruiser now: big car Land Kreuzer then:

[@Honkious5824]

I've heard of this one, it was meant to be a tank with a naval deck gun for a turret (as they made way to many to fit on their ships) and it would have been transported on a giant mega-train which they also planned to make, but was cancelled as the allies had air dominance that not even the ratte's AA guns could fight.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

Consuming 60 gallons of fuel per minute while going 25MPH, the "Rat" would have gotten gas mileage of 144 gallons per mile. By comparison, the Crawler-Transporter that carried Apollo Saturn Vs to the launch gantries got 125 GPM.

[@When_am_I]

Math

[@adamccathey]

At 8:40, they said 1gal/min.

[@yamatosucks]

Now pls don't use eagles per square hamburger.. Use the normal system pls

[@Jaypc06]

@@yamatosucks freedom units > communism units

[@alexwalker2582]

GETS, the Crawler-Transporter GETS 125 GPM. NASA still uses that behemoth.

[@philipnewell772]

Imagine driving one of those nowadays with the gas prices that would cost like 2700$ a hour

[@alter112]

Elon musk makes that by the time you finish typing that sentence

[@TheMisterBerry]

I do genuinely wonder if the designer was a planted inside guy who pitched an idea so crazy that it's primary purpose was to strain supply lines and run them down to aid in turning the war around. It just had to sound believable or at a very minimum, plausible, to who he was pitching it to.

[@bkjeong4302]

The guy had previously made similar designs for the USSR at Stalin’s behest, so probably not.

[@Cbrmkn98xs]

2:14 iirc, the main battery/turret of the Ratte would come from the Gneisenau battleship with the 28cm guns which was also used for coastal defenses in the Atlantic Wall anything bigger than the Ratte would be the Schwerer Gustav or the P1500 Monster 2:51 the Maus and Entwicklung E100 were both the precursors of the Ratte, since the E100 was also a project with only the hull being built while the Maus having 2 prototypes 7:01 for anyone wondering what this tank is, its the Henschel VK36.01 heavy tank, being known as the Tiger 1’s prototype 15:20 naval bombardment and air bombardment is really the only thing the Allies can do against it, or it can be infiltrated by sabotages and disable the vehicle

[@huntsman0076]

It would with high probability brake down by the sheer weight, even with the powerful engines the tank would be underpowered, the Mercedes-Benz MB 517 engine was supposed to give maus 20kph even at crossroad but could only push it to around 16kph(and non were send to combat since the super heavy tank projects were abandon in 1944 and they were both blown up to prevent capture by the red army) And the britts would probably just send some lancaster bombers to drop grand slams at it

[@winchestersons6258]

Still, seeing 20 of those coming up the road would cause one to pause

[@cardiv5zuikaku944]

@@winchestersons6258 Whole German resources will pause, that for sure

[@leonoraekaterina5838]

1000 ton tank taken out by a 6$ sticky bomb to one of its tracks

[@sniper_mike8739]

@@winchestersons6258 and then, TACTICAL NUKE, INBOUND

[@greathoonta3461]

The main fact about this tank is, yeah it would work in a lot of ways. For one, as old training videos for American soldiers on how to defeat tanks tells me this tank would demolish the allies since they wouldn’t know a thing about how to deal with them. These tanks would crush soldiers in their fox holes, American anti tank weapons would be useless, Molotovs couldn’t he thrown into their air vents, etc. Sure, urban combat wouldn’t be possible with it. And if the ground was even slightly wet it would sink into the ground. And it just wouldn’t be able to cross into Britain or even Africa. It also would make it impossible to continue building enough other tanks since they were so expensive and inefficient to build. But it could do a lot of damage…. For probably about a month until the allies realize it’s problems and tear them to shreds with traps like soaked ground making it sink into the ground, bombs specifically designed to target its tracks with immense heat, tactics of misleading German forces wasting immense resources to move the tank, etc. It’s understandable why it may have looked promising, but really once you get past how big and powerful it is it isn’t reliable at all.

[@mauricioalmeida7749]

basically, the Bismarck on land. A huge, impractical metal fortress meant more for distracting the allies from more important tasks than to actually be a good fighting machine.

[@bongoingaroundbritain.]

I've just realised that you upload pretty much every day. So even if a few things are missed or not 100‰ spot on. The fact that you narrate and illustrate a full KZbin video daily really should be commended 👍

[@thalastianjorus]

They.* Infographics/SCP Explained/Backrooms Explained is _actually_ a website with dozens of writers, and hundreds (if not thousands) of staff.

[@Zuvas]

@@thalastianjorus lol thousands of staffs, calm yourself its just a 12m sub channel its doesn;t produce that much income

[@thalastianjorus]

@@Zuvas they're an actual website, not just a channel on KZbin, is my point. Infographics, the site, long pre-dates KZbin, and is run by a corporation.

[@admiralkaede]

@@thalastianjorus thousands uh no maybe 10 or 20 at most id say 30

[@admiralkaede]

@@thalastianjorus what cooperation again thousands is a lot even major game studios barely break 1000

[@xCorpseDollx]

Nice to see another AMAZING upload! You guys posting always makes my day better! Keep up the great work! 😀🔥

[@mccrlol]

The Landkreuser P100 Ratte must've been a monstrosity. It's big (1000 tons big) and slow (~25mph slow), making it unreliable, and plus, it would take up TONS of resources.

[@franzicoy]

And this is why it should've been the cheap land version of Ace Combat's heavy command cruisers.

[@doritomuncher234]

there was a huge missed opportunity to design an aircraft carrier version

[@Mynameisnotjoe]

You know it’s really weird to see this Chanel do a sponsor for raid. I mean the narrator voice the content etc. I will never expect this

[@thehardyboys4227]

What?? You mean you don’t play Raid!??

[@SilverWulfe]

Love the content, I watch your stuff every day!! Keep up the amazing work!!

[@tommyfox854]

I wonder if we can build this thing with modern technology; it won't ever be used in actual combat, but just to see if this mobile fortress is even possible. It would look pretty cool in military parades, not gonna lie.

[@kidd32888]

The planes would have a field day

[@tommyfox854]

@@kidd32888 Ture; maybe instead of diesel engines powering this modern build of such a ridiculous idea, how about one tiny nuclear reactor, perhaps that can generate enough power to move that thing. You know, like the sand cursors from Star Wars but with a lot of guns strapped to it.

[@jkesterson5562]

Yes definitely

[@MrKingkez]

Do you want Warhammer 40k to happen, that is how it happens lol. Its a lanspeeder

[@jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847]

Look up the Bolo Tanks from the BOLO books. In the settings and lore, why not just make Tanks gigantic and sentient, and almost impervious to almost every attack.

[@FROGGKINGG]

Yeah lets have a giant weaponized apartment complex with massive cannons on it! Not like they can just drop a bomb or two on it from a long distance in the air

[@DTSephiroth]

If Nuclear Power was available earlier, the P.1000 and P.1500 might have managed to become a reality.

[@diversejoe617]

Massive tank: We own this continent of Europe Allies: *I'm about to end this whole man's career*

[@edgelord616]

I imagine it would have been very effective as a PSYCHOLOGICAL weapon, but would serve better as a mobile command center or or mobile artillery piece than a legitimate tank

[@marathi_manus467]

Here in INDIA🇮🇳, Your timing of video is 1 AM daily. But I eagerly waiting for it despite parents shout at me😂❤️

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Wow my Parents let me do what i want

[@space4166]

@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman lucky but that’s good parenting and bad, if a child has more freedom it’s proven kids like and follow what parents say.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

@@space4166 oh

[@sniper_mike8739]

@@space4166 *decapitates self FREEDOM

[@alanalmohammad4866]

If this was on the allied side, this would have done good damage

[@thegodfather768]

How

[@SCP--kr5pd]

Would’ve been built better if it was made in America

[@SCP--kr5pd]

@@ThrillSeeker3524 allow me to cure you of the pestilence. You’ll be good as new in no time.

[@lemurman7978]

@@SCP--kr5pd I mean Germany in this time actually made the Maus which is crazy

[@diiii_mond]

A tank this size isn’t feasible nor a good idea anyways.

[@rachelredden6682]

"This video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends": Skip to 1:00

[@LOCKSHADES]

I always think that huge tank was about to crush that soldier struggling to run away

[@AsterothPrime]

They should have built a large inflatable version of this and leaked documents about it to draw in allied forces/resources in tackling it, believing it to be a real threat.

[@shadowthehedgehog4737]

That is brilliant.

[@_.Glennicus._]

At the time, they had the turrets available from the Gneisanau (the second of the 2 Scharnhorst class of battle cruiser) the Gneisanau in world of warships shows what upgrades it was getting before those upgrades were cancelled The 3, triple gun 11 inch turrets would be reduced to 2 guns with modification, so per ratte tank 3 (or 5 if two more turrets were made) Ratte tanks could have come around Double that to 6 (or 10 depending on what happens) Ratte tanks could exist if all 6 turrets from both scharnhorst class ships were taken (sorry this is so long, I just thought I'd mention it)

[@a_lifelesslie]

Big tank small man. Yall someday this is gonna be built.

[@kidd32888]

Ultimate compensation 🤣🤣

[@a_lifelesslie]

@@kidd32888 Yes indeed 🤣

[@simply_girls1599]

🤣🤣🤣

[@GHOSTWARRIOR60]

Next could yall upload what will the earth look like when all the world's ice melts??

[@mikerhem1273]

Lol the fact that they really tried to build a tank that troops could live in is beyond insane.

[@michealmalloy1934]

They weren’t building a tank, they were building a mobile base.

[@bullseye6080]

I wonder how can the Rattes do against a nuke

[@user-bc6ug7rj1g]

Was JUST thinking this

[@Wheeljackdaboi]

idk but i BET it cant suvive a tsar bomba

[@nickloughren1919]

Not to mention the famous mid season in the Soviet Union and the effects on a 1000 ton tank that you couldn’t move once it got stuck

[@Lights480]

Let's relive this legendary tank in a video game.

[@thehardyboys4227]

Is the ratte unlock able in raid..?

[@Lights480]

@@thehardyboys4227 unlock unable, before the player got destroyed faithfully and truly at least 100 times.

[@sniper_mike8739]

@@Lights480 nice

[@alexsatyawibawa6240]

You just made my day by reminding me of some good animations about ratte

[@charlesknight5140]

Showing LOVE for the channel thank you for another great video once again. Have a Blessed day everyone

[@rpd6874]

this tanks rails are extremely exposed and can easily be destroyed making it stuck where it was ...its exremely unreliable

[@TM0TP]

imagine if that thing encounters a hill or something lol, also artillery would have a field day against this thing.

[@martinstallard2742]

1:00 start of content

[@soulfusionzgamer3607]

This is so cool I am really impressed of the engineers like their weapons and their designs

[@olivergeffre752]

Hi love your Chanel no clue how you upload so often

[@reddo__230]

So glad he finally made a video on this!

[@BarelyNoticedADD]

The ratte would have definitely shortened the war, in favor of the allies. Not enough resources for anything else.

[@j.w.b5048]

And only to get destroyed by missiles from planes.

[@theotherguy6951]

Germany’s emphasis on trying to field the most advanced tanks may have contributed to their downfall as constant iterations kept production costs high as they couldn’t achieve economies of scale by finding a workhorse to produce in large numbers. Meanwhile, the allies were building a massive army of T-34s and M4 Shermans which may not have been the most advanced tanks but they got the job done.

[@alzapua.m]

Lol at putting one of these monstrosities on top of another. "A platoon of monstrosities" was funny, too

[@tgcgtheviewer]

Yo this would’ve looked so fire in person! and would’ve been a little bit more better I kinda wish that this existed

[@willis6066]

This is my new favorite channel!!

[@j-boys2johns869]

Your ww2 videos are so good learn a lot of fascinating stuff

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Could you PLEASE learn the difference between 'exasperated' and 'exacerbated'! They mean entirely different things and are not interchangeable.

[@phoenixblitz4304]

11:18 This is a partially true. Two turrents and one hull were completed when Soviet forces captured the training grounds. It was Soviet engineers that made the Maus complete. You also forget about the E100, the evolution of the Maus (only one hull completed, which was captured by American forces.) Also, if the Tiger 1 had been built earlier, it would have done the same as the Ratte, without any of the risks.

[@bmac7643]

Also although it is rumored that the maus was used to defend its factory it’s not confirmed

[@nathanperal6841]

amazing video! keep up the good work!

[@mr_habibi]

Just finished watching Breaking Bad Season 1 Episode 7 and I was at minute 26:35, and I get a notification for this video talking about a 1000 tonne German artillery piece, I am absolutely dumbfounded by this coincidence as Walt was talking about the exact same thing, it wasn't planned and I am flabbergasted.

[@drewdiamond2270]

Hank, Walter, gus all die

[@taylorlewis7522]

No. Walter talks about a huge artillery called gustav. This is a tank

[@mr_habibi]

@@taylorlewis7522 yeh im aware after watching most of this vid, just the fact that this vid said 1000 tonne and German, shocked me at the time

[@sniper_mike8739]

Wanna break from the bad?

[@EGReviews]

The minute they chose the Soviets as an enemy, is the moment the nazis lost the war. Here's a horrifying thought, if they hadn't invaded, and the Soviet Union instead allied with Germany....

[@Jaypc06]

It woulda been ok I would’ve just had to stepped in no big deal

[@RadekSuski]

Guys, please include also the normal measurements units. Some people watching you are not used to use imperial units

[@AnTunZee]

I think it would have been a non factor. If it was built before the war started then it would have either accelerated what actually happened or delayed the inevitable.

[@skulliomax]

This thing is an (almost) real life bane blade...

[@STONE-wh2en]

This tank contradicted the entire strategy of mobility and speed on which the blitzkrieg doctrine was based. The element of surprise would no longer exist and so would the possibility of quickly outflanking the enemy. That was just Hitler's delusional megalomaniac expression.

[@christianburnett236]

This would make a great Wolfenstein enemy/boss vehicle. But this to me makes me scream "Star Wars!"

[@lazygaga-ie8qr]

Finnaly, a Infogrpahics Show video about the Ratte.

[@thewb8329]

Sounds like another terror weapon idea that would have siphoned off resources from other viable weapons the same way the V-2 rocket did.

[@UrMom-vs4mc]

Do a video on the p 1500

[@prestonpotter4507]

18:32 Black Sea: ight imma head out

[@aayanscreativelab1786]

This tank sounds like something my child mind would create

[@miudjchrisgo]

Make something on the wind talkers in WW2

[@samuelcallejo1268]

Trying to build land.battleahips/cruisers is a complete fantasy. The sea going behemoths are aided by the fact that is easier maneuver and move those ships in ocean. The land doesn't displace like the sea does. It requires much more power to move. Limited by speed and terrain, it should be relatively easy to track them and destroy them from the air. Also mounting a battleship main gun to take out a single tank ? Relative rate of fire for those guns ability to hit conventional tanks would make it easy to overrun.

[@andreasjohnsson8854]

I read that the main gun at the p 1000 ratte was supposed to weight 600 tons and that was one of the reasons they could not get this project started

[@thewaryears]

That tank is so big, big enough to be a great target.

[@When_am_I]

This is an appropriate parallel to the coming/current obsolescence of the aircraft carrier. We keep making them bigger so hypersonic missiles can hit them with ease.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

laser weapons will shoot them all down. Lasers travel at the speed of light. In fifteen years they will have a close in weapon defense system like the phalanx but instead of a 20mm rotary gun it will use a powerful 1000-3000 megawatt laser that will burst any target into flames instantly.

[@When_am_I]

@@joshuaortiz2031 so why would we need aircraft carriers?

[@joshuaortiz2031]

@@When_am_I the lasers are just defensive weapons dude they only have a range of a few miles they will be mounted on ships. You still need carriers to project air power. For a while high altitude military aircraft will fly too high for laser weapons at sea level to engage them. If the range of your air defense laser weapon is 2 miles and an enemy plane is flying over you at 75.000 feet which is about 15 miles up the laser wont reach it. Lasers will be used to shoot down incoming enemy missiles, artillery shells, drones, low flying aircraft like helicopters.

[@jacobnunya808]

@@joshuaortiz2031 A gigawatt laser would be pretty crazy.

[@RonPiggott]

The "what if" situation doesn't change the fact that it would destroy roads making refueling not impractical.

[@thefatdumpling7458]

Everything about the video is great except for the thumbnail. The 2S3M (the tank listed as the "WW2" tank) is a Soviet tank from the late 60's.

[@kevinjhonson5925]

A gallon a minute is still better than my RAM

[@cubeshots7225]

There was a p-1500 design which was a mobile ship killer on land

[@1Lomero]

Your channel is perfect, but can you make video about estonian indebendence war.

[@twillison8824]

Ask a dozer operator if they think it would work. Ever buried a D-10? It's not fun to get one unstuck and it's not even the largest dozer in production.

[@mannofdober873]

Nice land battleship you have there Germany. Let me just attack somewhere else. What's that? You're driving your land battleship there? Well now we're attacking the place it left behind. Doesn't matter how powerful the tank is. It can only be in one place at once.

[@praveenkumarkudroli2629]

Bro Tiger1,king Tiger Ratte1,000,Karl Gerat, ShewverGustav , Ladhikerpanzer 1'500 , T34,KV1, kV 2,KV3,KV4 ,maus ,Panther KV 44,KV6, panzer 1,2,3,4,are my favourite and don't forget battleship like KMS Bismarck and IJN Yamato

[@rsz5000]

It is crazy how germany still lost the war with these tanks

[@alexanderlebaigue3954]

Look at "The Tortoise" in Bovingdon Tank Museum, British big tank 1944, same problems.

[@DKamps]

Love how the most replayed part of the video is after the raid shadow legends commercial.

[@shrekoof5501]

What about a modernized Mouser, VS an Abrams? Where the Mouser has tougher & lighter composite armor, better engine, and night vision and thermal? Or is that just Abrams VS the modern Leppard tank?

[@juliandangelogumpal4912]

I live this guys content and video.

[@robertbarrows6687]

At least Repulsorlift technology was never invented, the Maus and Ratte would have instantly became practical since they could float above the ground.

[@SpeedDemon03]

You should Animate the videos in the same style as the thumbnail nails

[@Siva-en9sw]

Call of duty please bring this tank to life, by adding some backstory saying this Tank is in some secret location :D

[@figure1864]

16:45 France kinda reminds me of Countryballs

[@GhostChild808]

This felt like it is the inspiration for the Imperial AT-AT in Star Wars... o.o

[@Knightmare919]

It's more like the at at from star wars very scary but very impractical.

[@creamniite6544]

“Lucas Riggs is always up for a challenge, if you tell him somethings impossible, he will always prove you wrong.”

[@wout5281]

the second option is way more likely as seen in current wars where such big tanks don't exist for a good reason.

[@Jay-dawg337]

😂 the inspiration for the Death Star and megazord

[@That80sGuy1972]

I don't think that mega-tank, if it ever came to be, would have been meant for nor used as a front line vehicle. It would have been used as a mobile command center, one that can finish off a task force moving in to destroy the base... and relocate before another strike can be fully planned.

[@davidsmith1310]

Your first scenario for if the Ratte was built is very flawed, they would move too slowly to allow for blitzkrieg so either the panzer divisions would go ahead of it leading to the same results with the Ratte only having sparse engagements or the army moved at their speed giving the British and French in France time to respond properly. They would certainly have drawn focus onto themselves but they would be prime targets for air power leading them being destroyed quickly, remember that battleships lost against waves of planes. But there is a very important piece to the what if the Ratte was built scenario, how many less planes, tanks and guns would Germany have built in order to build these Rattes. Even if they worked and didn't break every ten minutes so much resources would have been sunk into them that Germany would have had a lot less capable military.

[@tonk3841]

6:28 *_Nice_*